The detail of the escapes from German prison camps is full of descriptive information that should satisfy the curious. In The Great Escape you feel as if you've received about as full of an account of this famous event a Written by one of the men who assisted in what is known as the Great Escape, Paul Brickhill's book on the experiences of WWII POWs is tense and at times exhilarating. His determination to ferret out the stories of escapees after they left the camps would do any journalist proud. Written by one of the men who assisted in what is known as the Great Escape, Paul Brickhill's book on the experiences of WWII POWs is tense and at times exhilarating. Made into the classic 1963 war film of the same name starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough.more It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men-every one of them, every minute, every hour, every day and night for more than a year. It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes.
It was a split-second operation as delicate an They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp.
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